| 单词 | freak |
| 释义 | freak I. 1. a. < the condition of the mare, and the young gentleman's strange freak in riding her out all night — George Meredith > < his spurts of action are not mere freaks of a temperament that alternates between feverish exploits and slothful lethargy — Karl Polanyi > < you should be able to stop and go on, and follow this way or that, as the freak takes you — R.L.Stevenson > also < a bishop arrived who'd some strange freaks about meditation — George Bellairs > b. < by a freak of wind the smoke had been blown high — Wallace Stegner > < stories about freaks of the weather, floods, and great droughts — American Guide Series: Ind. > < a freak of good fortune — New Yorker > 2. archaic 3. a. < freaks of this storm include a shingle driven through a fence post, a flock of chickens picked clean, and the walls of a house carried away bodily, leaving a cupboard full of unbroken china — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < the freaks of contemporary fashion — O. Elfrida Saunders > < no individual freak, but a confirmed habit of the species — James Stevenson-Hamilton > b. 4. Britain II. < when rain comes it is often in freak deluges — Keith Ellis > < the range of the four main voices, … is not more than four octaves … except in the case of Russian basses and freak sopranos — Ralph Vaughan Williams > < grotesque sandstone formations, tooled by centuries of wind and weather into freak shapes — American Guide Series: California > III. < silver and mother-of-pearl freaking the intense azure — Robert Bridges †1930 > IV. 1. < a film freak > 2. 3. V. intransitive verb 1. 2. 3. a. b. < if I lose my glasses or miss an appointment, I freak out — Emmylou Harris > transitive verb 1. 2. < what he saw freaked him out so much that he still gets shaken when he remembers it — Berkeley Barb > • freaked or freaked-out |
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